Curse of the Devil Doll

Time for another cursed entry in the superbly spooky "Ghost Gallery" series from Fiction House. If you remember the weirdly macabre Drew Murdoch adventure from a few posts ago HERE (yeah, I think Drew's gonna be our featured Character of the Month here in April), well, he's back and really has his hands full with an alluring apparition (illustrated by none other than joltin' Jack Kamen), --a super sexy spook that's even stolen the haunted, haggard heart of 'ol Mr. Karswell! Why, I almost actually shed a tear when: "For one brief second her tortured face writhed in the flames... then faded..." From the Sept. 1951 issue of Jumbo Comics #151.

Cagliostro Cursed Thee

I know that some of you are still trying to catch-up with our previous April Fool's Day post, but I wanted to get in this goofy great tale from Fiction House's "The Ghost Gallery", aka the September 1952 issue of Jumbo Comics #163 --you know, for a long awaited Werewolfery Wednesdayery installment, 'natch! Packed with loads of luridly beautiful Bob Webb artwork, this time our lycanthropy problem feels a bit weirder than usual, and when the wild mad science angle finally runs amok in the final pages, you'll be wondering when Santo or the Blue Demon will bust through the walls to save the B-movie day. Fantastic cover illustration as well, we even have a freaky lookin' Gomez-esque doctor that certainly seems inspired by the famous Charles Addams character. So fire up the serpent skull incense burner and dive into one heckuva chaotic monster mish-mashin' spook-a-rama!

Flee the Mad Furies

Attractive good girl art by Alex Blum highlights this odd little supernatural tale of witchcraft and murder, from the Fall 1952 issue of Ghost Comics #4. Actually a reworked "Ghost Gallery" story from Jumbo Comics #81, this is yet another spooker that, despite all of those lovely long legs and negligee panels, didn't quite make the Swamp Monsters book cut.